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McCain and F.C.C.: Why All the Fuss?

I read with amusement the exchange of letters between Senator John McCain and the Federal Communications Commission (excerpts, Jan. 6).

As a federal bureaucrat who has answered his share of Congressional inquiries, I see the commission's response to Mr. McCain's letter as completely in character. Of course any Congressional inquiry is seen as an imposition that would come at a delicate time; bureaucrats are always ''finalizing their decisions.'' Good grief, what else do we do?

Mr. McCain was within his rights to ask the federal bureaucracy for a decision; the bureaucracy was in character to answer in the way it did. This is a ''dog bites man'' story.